Transition Planning

All young people face big changes when they leave school so they need to make plans for their future. The purpose of planning is to help you to work towards positive outcomes for their future.  If you have an Education, Health and Care (EHC) Plan, planning should start by Year 9 (age 13/14). 

Staff in school, careers advisors, health or other professionals will discuss with you from time to time to think about the progress you are making. 

The Year 9 review of the EHC Plan is a very important meeting as it is a meeting to start thinking about preparing for adulthood. This meeting creates the transition plan. Future reviews of the plan are called annual reviews and should happen once a year. The plan is reviewed to ensure that it reflects your aspirations and identifies what support you need.

Working with other young people with disabilities and parents and carers, we have produced some guides that help to explain about the review meeting and why it’s important for you to be there.